Birdland: Exotic pets display talents at two-day event

PERRY — A piano-playing cockatoo, a bicycle-riding macaw and a talking parakeet showed off their talents this weekend at the Exotic Bird Society of America’s show and sale at the Georgia National Fairgrounds and Agricenter.

The performing birds’ trainer Larry Beatson, of Grovetown, has been working with birds for nearly 20 years after getting his first bird, a cockatiel, when he was recovering from back surgery. Now the certified avian specialist has trained hundreds of birds, and he helps rehabilitate birds with psychological and behavioral problems.

“Birds do things wrong when we have reinforced and trained them wrong,” he said.

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